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Todd Billings on Embracing Our Mortality Unless we are very ill or old, many of us avoid thinking about our deaths. J. Todd Billings’s new book, The End of the Christian Life, explains that remembering our mortality and learning to die well will give us a more profound view of true Christian resurrection hope. Conversation | January 19, 2021 Preaching and Singing the Resurrection 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship | On-Demand Panel Discussion Video Video | October 29, 2020 “We Have Seen the Lord!”: Preaching the Johannine Narratives of Jesus’s Resurrection Appearances In this workshop we looked at John’s distinctive resurrection narratives, which emphasize both the restoration of Jesus’s relationship with his disciples broken by his death and the continuity of Jesus’s relationship with and care for all his disciples across time and place amidst the obvious differences brought about by his resurrection and return to the Father. Audio | March 16, 2018 Chi Rho A visual symbol that can be placed on the cover of service bulletins, within the written liturgy, or on a large screen display. Image | March 16, 2017 Coop's Column- Risen With Jesus Jesus' triumph over the grave has enduring impact. The fact of his having arisen involves our rising with him to new life. His living presence now indwells us. Thus, to remember him today is to know him as fully alive. Reflection | April 05, 2013 Easter Resource Guide This list of Eastertide resources—including art, music, drama, devotions, liturgies, books, and sermons for the "Great Fifty Days" from Easter Sunday to Pentecost—will help you plan worship to celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection. Resource Guide | April 05, 2011 Coop's Column - Risen Indeed "On the third day he arose again from the dead." Simple words often capture life's most profound and important truths the best. How better, therefore, for Christians to make their most astonishing declaration about Jesus Christ than by this direct, unadorned, and so forthrightly clear confession? Reflection | February 11, 2011 Were You There in the Garden When He Arose? - Matthew 28 (Easter) A service plan for Easter Sunday celebrating the victory accomplished through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, part of a Lenten series following specific events that led up to Christ's death and resurrection. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Worship Service: A Dear Daughter - Luke 8 A service plan for Eastertide focused on the work of Jesus in raising Jairus' daughter in an Eastertide series focusing on Bible stories that occurred before Christ's resurrection but which shed light on how we should live after his resurrection. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Growing With Peter Series: Go Tell Peter! - Mark 16 An Easter service celebrating the resurrection of Jesus and the certain victory we have in him. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Safety. Forever! - Psalm 23, John 11, 14 A service plan for Easter celebrating the resurrection of Christ as it is predicted in the final word of Psalm 23: "forever"! Part of a Lenten series focused on "Walking with God through Psalm 23." Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Knowing the Power of His Resurrection - Ephesians 1 A service plan from the Apostles' Creed focused on the physical resurrection of Christ from the dead in a series on the Apostles' Creed as explained in the Heidelberg Catechism. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 For Us - John 5, 1 Thessalonians 4 A service plan for Eastertide focused on our personal resurrection from the dead on the day in which Christ returns in an Eastertide series focusing on Bible stories that occurred before Christ's resurrection but which shed light on how we should live after his resurrection. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Were You There When He Kept Showing Up? - 1 Corinthians 15 (Sunday after Easter) A service plan for Eastertide focused on our certainty in faith and our confidence in the credibility of the Christian religion as based on the evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The final service plan of a Lenten series following specific events that led up to Christ's death and resurrection. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Enoch - Genesis 5 A service plan for the first Sunday after Easter focused on the life and faith of Enoch in an Eastertide series focusing on Bible stories that occurred before Christ's resurrection but which shed light on how we should live after his resurrection. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Friend Lazarus - John 11 A service plan for Eastertide focused on the resurrection of Jesus' friend Lazarus in an Eastertide series focusing on Bible stories that occurred before Christ's resurrection but which shed light on how we should live after his resurrection. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Elijah - 2 Kings 2 A service plan for Eastertide focused on Elijah's departure from this earth and how he bypassed death in an Eastertide series focusing on Bible stories that occurred before Christ's resurrection but which shed light on how we should live after his resurrection. Worship Service | June 01, 2005